The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-09
MINNESOTA.

MINNESOTA.
In Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Nels
Olson Holong was found guilty OF murder
III the tirst degree. The crime was most
atrocious one, May % he killed Miss Lille
lie d, aged sixteen, mutllated her body in
terrible manner, and fed it to the hogs.
Two days later he was captured at Wendell
Station, and an unsuccessful attempt was
made to lyncn him. He was sentenced to
lie hanged.
Webb Smart, the thirteen-year-old son Of
j. ID. Smart, while crossing the lake at Peli-
can Rapids few days ago fell through the
ice and was drowned
David Morrell, a grain dealer at Winona
for twenty years, died the other night, aged
siXty-six years,
Peter Barrett who is charged with the
murder OF q man named Tollefson at Min
neapolis, was taken to that city from
Omaha recently and safely lodged in jail
Hon. G. NJ. Ramsey, of Stephen, has gone
to Scotland to attend the funeral of his
brother and sister in-law, the Earl and
Lady DalhouSie.
1t is feared that Minneapolis may suffer
from water famine before the winter is
over because of q lack of power to run the
pumps from which the city's supply is re-
ceived.
The new Pilgrim Congregational Church
at Duluth, just inclosed and on which
sos, 900 had already been expended, caught
fire the other afternoon from stove in use
to dry the plastering and was destroyed
Fire and water destroyed $17, 200 worth
of property on Nicollet avenue, in Minneap-
Oils, the other day.
Two Duluth evening papers, the Herald
and journal, have consolidated, merging
the establishments into stock company, and
now appear as the Duluth HeFaid-JoUrnal,
under the editorsh!p of c. A. Lounsbury.
fire the other morning in Metropolitan
block, one of the finest in Duluth, damaged
the building slightly, while water damaged
dry-goods stock of l. Freimuth to the ex-
tent Of nearly $40, 900 and contents of law
nd other offices about So, COO.
Rev, Perry Hoag, pastor of the Christian
Church at Winona, died Of heart disease in
q stage-coach the other day.between Coleta
and Sterling, Ill.
A. B. Shipley, treasurer of Faribault, was
found in his cellar recently with bullet
hole in his head He had been sick for
some time, and was the victim CT queer
Jepps n Jehson, twenty three years old,
fell from the tower of the windmill at the
ater-tank in Lake Benton the other morn
ing striking head first on moving freight
train, and was killed.
The will of the late Thomas A. Harrison.
of Minneapolis, gives to Hamline Universe
ty the sum of $50, 600 in cash.
DAKOTA.
Seven practical coa-miners have arrived
at Huron and will sink shaft immediate
ly.
The other night the wife of John Scholtz,
German farmer living near Sioux Falls,
hanged herself Schol5z was on trial for
having obtained twenty dollars on false
pretenses, and his wife, aged about fifty
years, fearing he would be sent to prison,
committed suicide. Scholtz pleaded guilty,
and was fined.
The Farmers National Cooperative In
surance Company was organized at Plank
linton the other day, with capital of $780,
900, Over one-half of the stock was sub
scribed in that city and the remainder
throughout the Territory, with Codington
Comfy in the lead, having $4,000.
fire few days ago at John Murphy's
place, three miles west of Altoona, de-
stroyed his barn, outbuildings, hay and
granary, in which was stored $50 bushels
of wheat, $50 of oats and his household
goods
Whitewood, ten miles from Deadwood, is
now the Black Hills terminus of the Chi
cago 4 Northw estern railroad This short
| ems the stage journey to brief pleasure
| drive over the mountains
North of Volga recently little fve-year-
old child WIS killed by prairie wolves.
A cannon used in 1876 for protection
| against the Indians was exclvated from q
bed of eight feet of gravel at Deadwood the
other day. 1t is said to have disappeared
during the Dakota food and this is the first
| that has been known OF 1t since.
! Wltertown is noted as the only large
! town IN Dakota which gave a majority
! against the sale of liquor in the recent eiec-
ton.
! The bodies of John H Gowan and his ten
| year old daughter were found The other
/ night at their home in Huron frozen stiff
From al appearances they were suffocated
/ by coal gas
! Full returns are received of the voting on
| the division question, and of the eighty-six
| counties thrty-six have given maiori5es
| for division or Two States, and fly against,
| or one State In North Dakota but three
F.! counties voted for division. and in the south
! fifteen voted against Out Of nearly 20, 600
! votes, there IS a majority of little over
/ s, 600 for division.
! At the re- emit third annual session in
| jamestown OF the Dakota Stockman's con-
| vent.on officers were elected as follows:
! Pros da,t ~ T A3touay Grand Forks. Tfcl,
| President, T. G. Haggerty, Aberdeen; Sec
! reGry, Oscar P. Kemp Wsiertown; Treas
urer, A D. Johnston, NJ ntrose; D rectors, j.
| G. Wade, jamestown, and Thomas David,
! Mitchell.
A Polish colony of about one thousand
/ has located in ene eastern part of Kidder
| County at Crystal Spr ngs.
The mil! and 0 her property of the Queen
Bee Milling Company in siouxs Fall, valued
| at $500, 900, Were sold under q mortgage OF
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